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Vaccines and Diagnostic Production Directorate

Mission:Produce human vaccines for priority diseases and anti-sera for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes.

Vision:To be a center of excellence in production of quality and affordable human vaccines and serum.

Objectives:• To Produce safe and efficacious traditional human vaccines for priority diseases and diagnostics for diagnostic purposes• Conduct R&D for vaccine development

Major activities• Production of cell culture based rabies vaccines for human use.• Production of Polysaccharide meningococcal, Yellow fever, Cholera vaccine and Typhoid fever vaccine in the coming five years• Production of rabies monoclonal antibody for diagnostic and therapeutic use • Conduct research on genetic mapping of circulating rabies virus and development of rabies vaccine from the locally circulating rabies virus. • Initiate and implement collaborative Research and Development platforms for vaccine development • Collaborate on clinical trials of vaccines • Production of polyvalent anti-venom from poisonous snakes in Ethiopia and East Africa